ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — An area man who was recently charged with the murder of a woman in Virginia decades ago is now being investigated for the disappearance of his adopted daughter.
On Wednesday, February 5th police conducted an investigation of Dennis Bowman’s home on 136th Avenue near Hamilton Township.
The 70-year-old Bowman’s adopted daughter Aundria Bowman vanished from their home on March 11th, 1989 when she was 14, and has not been seen since. Aundria’s mother Cathy Terkanian has since said that she believes Bowman was the one behind her disappearance, and that he has reportedly confessed to her killing.
He was previously arrested in November of 2019 for the murder of Kathleen Doyle, a then 25-year-old military spouse who was found dead in Norfolk, Virginia in 1980. Michigan State Police in conjunction with their Virginia counterparts were able to bust open the decades long cold case after years of gathering forensic evidence.
Bowman has a long criminal record, including the sexual assault of a 19-year-old West Olive woman in 1981, of which he was convicted. In 1999, he was also convicted of breaking and entering into a female co-worker’s home, after which he was found by police with a shotgun and stolen lingerie.
